Despite significant genealogical work in recent decades, curricula in religious studies still struggle to incorporate disciplinary histories of colonialism and Orientalism, especially at the undergraduate level. This reticence seems ironic, given the historic importance of Asian religions to twentieth century frameworks of comparison still regnant today. To assess this postcolonial impasse, I juxtapose Wendy Doniger's theory of comparison in her 1998 work, The Implied Spider, to her obliquely critical comments on Edward Said and postcolonial studies. Doniger's still canonical work illustrates a tendency to post-Saidian retrenchment, which poses postcolonial thought beyond the bounds of the humanism that undergirds the comparative approach to religious studies. To the extent that such deferrals of postcolonial politics continue to hold sway, they will inhibit our development of antiracist pedagogies in the field.

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怨恨和裁员：重读多尼格比较和爱德华赛义德

尽管近几十年来进行了大量的谱系研究，宗教研究课程仍然难以融入殖民主义和东方主义的学科历史，尤其是在本科阶段。考虑到亚洲宗教对 20 世纪比较框架的历史重要性，这种沉默似乎具有讽刺意味。为了评估这种后殖民僵局，我将温迪·多尼格 (Wendy Doniger) 1998 年的作品《隐含的蜘蛛》中的比较理论并列在一起，她对爱德华·赛义德和后殖民研究的批评性评论。多尼格仍然经典的作品说明了一种后赛德人紧缩的趋势，这使后殖民思想超越了支撑宗教研究比较方法的人文主义的界限。如果后殖民政治的这种延迟继续占据主导地位，它们将抑制我们在该领域发展反种族主义教学法。